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THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL' Saturday, January 9, 1915. K. 0. MEN PLAN COUNTER STOVE CONSUMES ALL AIR News All Over ansas AUTO TURNS SOMERSAULT, KILLS ONE; HURTS THREE SUIT AGAINST LAUNDRY CELLAR, SOEFOCATES 1 Attempt to Speed Past Another Car Proves Fatal. Special to The CapiMl.

Junction City, Jan. 8. Ernst Raetz, a blacksmith at Alida, was found dead in a cellar near his shop this morning, and John Baer. bis assistant, was found unconscious. The cellar had been excavated for a house that Raetz was planning to build.

It had concrete walls and the roof wa3 nractlcallv air tisrht. The men were WHEELS PIN WOMEN DOWN Special to The Capital. I Lawrence, Jan. 8. Gilbert M.

Clayton and Ross M. Clayton, the two brothers who were made defendants in a suit for SI. 704. 1 in back bills In the district court yesterday, are preparing to file a counter claim of damages against the Wilder Brothers Steam i Laundry company. The Claytons claim I that they have a contract with the laundry company specifying a certain I kind of service and because this serv- ice was not given the brothers refused to pay for the work done.

The coun- ter suit has not yet been filed in the i court. I NO PARTY STRIFE WILL I SHERIFF TAKES BOY BACK -MAR STATE LEGISLATURE HOME TO WED SWEETHEART Special to The Capital. Special to The Capital. Lawrence. Jan.

8. Senator Parsons, Jan. 8. Shaved, mas-Benjamin K. Wilson, who will repre- saged and togged out in new clothes Bent Douglas and Jefferson counties from head to foot, after coming to in the upper hou.e of the state legis- Parsons on a "bum," William Morris, lature which will convene in Topeka 21 years old, son of a wealthy wheat next week, said today that he did not grower of Fargo, North Dakota, started believe the coming session will for home today to marry the daughter marked by the exhibitions of partisan of a wealthy neighbor of his father's, bitterness.

The fact that the house J- Roes, sheriff from Fargo, ac-is Republican while the Democrats oompanied him to see that he goes have a majority in the senate will home properly and attends to the mar-not, he believes, prevent the carrying rying. The sheriff has a warrant for out of a program of such legislation I Morris, charging him with a crime as will be good for the state. In pre-I against the girl, which he can serve liminary discussions of the situation i and probably land the boy in the North ihat have taken nlafo hptwen the Dakota penitentiary if the marriage 800 Men's Suits and Overcoats from All WoolLines using it as a bedroom during the cold shock of BcinK Hurled to the liround Stunned Kvery Passenger Kxeept Voune Boy Driver's Mother, on Way to Hospital, Has Skull Fractured. weather. A stove consumed all the air in the cellar during the night, suffocating Raetz.

Baer was revived with an oxygen machine. His condition is serious. HOCKN, SEEKING PARDOl Special Tbe Winfield. Jan. S.

One person was killed and four others seriously hurt when an automobile driven by Clyde Little, of Atlanta, went into the ditch near the Maple Grove school leaders of the two parties, a disposition has been shown to get together SHOEMAKER SAVES LIFE OF Y0UTHJW0 TIMES Sprcial The Caoital- Atchison, Jan. fc. Using a shoemaker's i knife. Harry McFarland. a young man, attempted suicide in a repair shop here this afternoon after rushing a letter to his mother, telling her he was in debt and had been drinking.

He was prevented taking his own life by Sim Norris, the proprietor of the shop, who took the knife DECLINES TO ASK PAROLE housf about ii ociock today. The can does not take place. Morris' father owns 1,280 acres of Dakota wheat land and is widely known in the vicinity of Fargo. The girl's father is said to be an equally prominent farmer. She Is three years younger than the boy.

They had been sweethearts for months. was coming down a slope at a high speed when the driver attempted to turn out to avoid coming too cloe to a car just ahead. He applied the brakes on needed laws rather than to devote the term to a period of obstruction. Senator Wilson is a Democrat but the few members of his party who sought to organize the senate's majority into 'an obstructionist body for the purpose of embarrassing the administration have not received any encouragement from him. Leavenworth.

Jan. S. Herbert S. Hockin, former secretary of the irn workers' union, clinging: to the hope that he will be pardoned, has but the car hit a gully in the road and turned completely over, crushing its occupants beneath it. Mrs.

Zulia Center, wife of the Rev. George Center, Christian minister at Atlanta, was killed. She lived only about twenty minutes and did not re- WIFE SAYS HUSBAND WATCHED HIS BROTHER KNOCK HER DOWN from him, after McFarland had slashed his throat, but without reaching vital 1 spot. Once before Norris saveel Mc- Farland's life by rescuing him from again declined to make application for a parole from the federal prison. He became eligible to apply for a parole last September.

At today's meeting of the parole LIKE CROWDED TENEMENTS the waters of a Missouri lake near here. gain consciousness. She suffered a I luisial fracture of the skull and internal board Paul J. Morrin. St.

Louis, and iu I injuries. The other occupants of the Edward Smythe. Peoria, made appli- K. Student More Crowded Than Schools of Other Slate. Men's Wool 25c Sox Men's 10c Cotton Gloves 5c Men's Gray Sox Men's 50c Wool Shirts 35c Men's 50c Fleece Shirts 25c Men's 51.50 Fleece Union Suits 97c Men's Golf Gloves 25c Men's $2.00 Wool Underwear 79c Men's 51.25 Union Suits 75c Men's 75c Sweaters 39c Men's 50c Shirts and Drawers 39c Men's Heavy Wool Caps 47c Men's Cow-Hide Brand Bib Overalls 79c Men's Extra Pants 97c The Largest Shoe Stock This Store Has Ever Purchased Is Offered at a Special Discount NEW RULE PAYS OFF DEBTS Junction City Claim Com mission Form In Good Kfonomy.

Sj-ci" to The Capital. Gypsum, Jan. la her suit for divorce, filed yesterday, Mrs. Ella Oakes stated that her husband, Chester Oakes, stood by and saw his brother knocked her down: that her husband has shown, a preference for other women and that he has often told her so. that she had frequently requested him to cease his attentions to other women and he flatly refused.

The Oakes family lives at Gypsum, where it is well known. Mrs. Maggie Adams, car were ciyeie inline, uriver and owner cations. All others of the eighteen of the car. Mrs.

Clyde Little. Dillard I convicted iron workers, with the ex-Center, a brother of the dead woman's ception of Hockin and Frank M. Ryan, husband. and Mrs. George Little, i made application at the September mother of Clyde Little.

All of these meeting of the board. Ryan, who is were rendered unconscious except Dil-j serving a seven-year sentence, will not lard Center. He was thrown clear of become eligible to apply at the next the machine and went at once to tne! meeting of the board, rescue of the others, some of whom were pinned down by the wheels of the 'THIRTY HFRFPHPn Rill I Special to The Capital. Junction City, Jan. 8.

Under tiie commission form of government. Junction City has in the last three years made great strides. The com- missioners are now holding ss.uuu car. Mrs. Center was held down by a i a widow living in Gypsum, is named in worta of city Donas wnicn urtiv m-i the netition as the of pnrli nartv and I terest amounting to several hundred each year.

When Jlo.oou 1 the one who has stepped in between dollars wneel anu uniara center ana u. i Hyatt of Grand Surr.mitt managed to get her from under the machine. A physician was summoned but she lived only a short time. The party was matle up this morning i i Mrs. Oakes and her husband.

BRING OWNERS $6,000 Spei-Ul to The Capital. Alta Vista, Jan. 8. The highest price ever paid for cattle here was received by Perry Brothers when they sold thirty head of thoroughbred Hereford bulls for S6.00O. The cattle were shipped to Texas this evening.

worth of bonds are due next year, is said that the money will be ready to pay them off. U. P. PLANS REMOVAL OF FARM AGENT FOR ATCHISON in Atlanta. Mrs.

center and Dillartl were askeel to go to make up the hporhii to The Capital. Lawrence, Jan. s. To make the classrooms of the educational institutions of Kansas as and as the classrooms for their high schools by cities like Topeka, Kansas City, Wichita and by other cities of the first and second class will require an expenditure of $.000,000 for -quipment. Thi is according biennial report made by the board of administration to fJovernor (5eorge II.

Hodges. "We are getting more out of our classroom in Kansas institutions of learning than is any other state in the I'liioii." reads the report. "ui- classrooms arc used from in tne morning until 4 in the p.fternoon. "The amount asked for from the legislature is reauceu to the lowest minimum. It will not equip the schools owned and supported by the slate of Kansas as adequately as the high m-hools in cities of the first and second class aro equipped.

"The State university is in a worse condition as regards classrooms ami office rooms than is any other institution ft its character in the country. It is impossible to meet the demands of more and larger classes. In addition office rooms are overcrowded, cutting down tin- efficiency of personal work between teacher and student." County It a Inch Money to Hire C. Demonstrator. i imomI HI DDAMnU TDAIM parly- KPV- -enter nemg unable to go.

LINCOLN BRANCH TRAIN Mr. Little was bringing his mother. i who had been in bad health, to a Win- field hospital. PRZEMYSL STILL FIGHTS Special to The Capital. Atchison, Jan.

S. It was announced today that Atchison county is to have a farm demonstrator, sufficient money to defray the expense having been pledged by farmers and business men. It will cost $2,800 a year, of which $1,000 will be paid by the gov- pecial The Capital. Lincoln Center, Jan. 8.

There is a report here that the Union Pacific Railroad company has Issued a new time card which will go into effect on Sunday, discontinuing the Sunday train on the Lincoln branch. Attempt) of ItunaliD Offensive to Capture Fortress Falls. Berlin. Jan. 8 (By Wireless to London).

Comparative quiet prevails In the vicinity of the Austrian fortress of jernment. Two hundred farmers pledged) Men's Button and Lace Shoos Extra Quality Dress Shoes Ladies' Latest Style Gun Metal Shoes Boys' All Leather Shoes, button and laee. Girls' School Shoes Ladies' Felt Lined Shoes PRATT GEJSJPIPE ORGAN Church Dedicate Inatru-- meat (ilven by J. S. Barnes.

Special to The Capital. Pratt, Jan. 8. Members of the M. E.

church here, who recently completed a $40,000 building, last night dedicated a new pipe organ, presented by J. S. Barnes. Edward Kreiser of Kansas City gave the opening S2.05 crzemysi. according to reports re- themselves to pay each, and the balance is to be paid by subscriptions from business men of Atchisvm and Kffingham.

It is believed Professor Taylor of the State Agricultural col-! lege will be the expert assigned to Atchison county. MRS. A. K. CHARLES IS UK AD.

Pperia. to The Capital. Atchison, Jan. 8. Mrs.

Alice Keeney Charles. 53, wife of Dr. A. Charles of Lancaster, died in a hospital here today of pneumonia, following a surgical operation several days ago. Her son, Dr.

Hugh Charles, is -a leading surgeon in Atchison. celved here from Vienna, the attempts of the Russians to renew the offensive having proved Ineffective. The garrison, these reports say, makes regular sorties capturing pris- ATCHISON FIRM BANKRUPT CLUB WOMEN URGE FIGHT ON EMPORIA POOL HALLS I oners and taking war material. hen 15S CLOTHING IOCS) COMPANY Far well Heating Company Kile Votun- Special tn The the weather permits, communication by aeroplane is made with PrzemysL Several of the Carpathian rivers have overflowed their banks and the condition of the land in that region is so bad that military operations are impossible. A GOOD PLASTER.

Meritol White Liniment is a. splendid application for Sore Throat. Cold on the Lungs. Croup and Pains in the Chest. Saturate a piece of flannel cloth with the Liniment anel use as a plaster.

It is very penetrating, will not blister and is very effective. Prices 25c, and 50c. and 51.00. Rosser Fmporia. Jan.

S. The Lyon special to ThT CauitiL (iAHXKTT GFrS STREET LIGHTS. Special to The Capital. Garnett. Jan.

8. Garnett has street lights again after being in darkness for the past seven months. The city has made a contract with Mr. McAfee, the owner, to run the plant until the city can arrange to take it ovev. 431433 Kansas Avenue County Fed, ration of omen held us Atchison, Jan.

S. The Farwell mutual mee-ting to. lay and Z0D women i eating comnanv of Atchison, which njoyed ithe big dinner served at noon ias had contracts for installing heat- Brunt Drug exclusive JEROMESPECIAL, DEPUTY, TO TRY HARRY THAW CASE agents, lopeka, Kan. Aelvertisement. in Plymouth hall uf the irst Congrf ing: piantsin.

big buildings in -many national church. Gertrude P.uck, in tne eTuntrv, has filed a volun-of the State Normal library, was toast- I tarv petition in baukruptcv. Its assests mistress and Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, of are nted at $3,:151 and its liabilities the state boa id of educational adminis- at $9,099.

tratioti, gave the principal address of 1 New York, Jan. S. William Travers Jerome today received from Attorney CHASE PIOXEER DIBS. Special to The Capital. Chase, Jan.

S. Jacob Kunoe. 73. an early settler of Rice county, is dead at his home in Chase. Mr.

Bunce came to Rice county in 1S73. INJURED IN AUTO WRECK; WOMAN SUES FOR $10,416 the afternoon. General Woodbury an appointment as a resolution establishment halls in Em The federation passed protesting against the of commercialized pool I a special deputy state attorney general Special to The Capital. to prosecute Harry K. Thaw when he Courtland, Jan.

S. Mrs. E. R. is returned to this state from New Lyon, who had her leg broken in an i Hampshire.

auto accident, due to a bad condition -Ji'- Jerome ald that the appoint-of the road where a new cement bridge ment was a formality continuing his had just been built in White Rock i service from the last administration. 17 10 USE II II poria. Tite pool hall question will be voted on at a general election, January OIL FROM CORN MAY BE fl SUBSTITUTE FOB LARD BOY, PLAYING WITH GUN, SHOOTS BROTHER IN FOOT Special to Tlie Capital. Cottonwood Falls. Jan'.

S. When B. Rufner. a farmer, prepared to butcher a hog yesterday lie loaded a rifle and went to the barn, where lie was followed by his two little sons, Sidney and yuenton, aged 9 and 7 years. When lie went to drive out the hog.

he laid the gun on the ground, where it was found by the boys. Sidney, the oldest, was shot in the foot by his brother. township, has sued lie township for $10,416 damages. DENMARK PLANS TO STOP PURCHASE OF PASSPORTS DIES WHILE PITCHING 11 A special to The Portis, Jan. 8.

Death came sudden-7ft years, of The day is at hand when a specialist can hold up his head ami feel proud of his profession. The members of the profession who are in the forefront, who really accomplish most, the advance jxuanl. so to speak, are genuine and ring tnie every tinu London, Jan. 8. A dispatch to thej Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen! says that owing to a report that Dan-! Jan.

8. After determining that corn oil is an economic substitute for oliv oil. Dean L. E. Sayre of the Kansas university school of pharmacy, is experimenting to determine whether it is a satisfactory ly to Silas Love, aged this place while he was son Alonzo Love, load trouble was the cause of helping his hay.

Heart his eleath. WINFIELD BUILDING BOOM MAY MARK to The Catiltal. Winfield. Jan. s.

P.uilding operations now under way in Winfield promise to make the best year this city lias ever experienced. There are buildings here now in course of construction, which when completed, will cost an aggregate of $350. 0OO. They include the new government postoffiee, addition to the state school for the feeble minded, a milk condensing plant, an aildition to St. John's college, a liome for the Winfield wholesale grocery and several fine private ish Identification papers are being sold i substitute for lard.

Some of the liquid oil, which is heavy and brown, has THE SPIRIT OF WINTER. The Spirit of Winter is with us. its presence known in many different ways sometimes by cherry sun- to Germans in the Uniteel States by means of which the Germans are able to reach home, the Danish government decided to take some action. I beii hydrogenated. In this condition I it appears white, and has about the I consistency of cocoa butter, and melts MARION CRAWFORD SPEAKS.

Spee-ial to The Capital. Alta Vista, Jan. S. Marion Crawford, of Salina, gave his famous impersonation of the Peaceful Valley in the Methodist church this evening. The proceeds were applied to the Baker endowment pledge of the Epworth shine and glistening snows, and sometimes by driving winds and blinding storms.

To many people it seems to take a delight in making bad things I worse, for rheumatism twists harde twingest sharper, catarrh becomes more I annoying, and the many symptoms of THIS IS A 11 II "MONTH. The Indoor life of winter, with of outdoor exercise, puts a heavy on the kidneys. Nearly everybody fers from rheumatism, backache. Ir. letr VaaKhan, the ar-oipllherf preldBt of the Ararrlran Medical AMiatioa.

Tmlt I the application of arlratlfir UI.eoterr to tar preralla aal rare of dlear. One of the greatest discoveries of the century is the German cure for blood and skin diseases. lack load in sides and back, kidney and bladder ailments. A backache may not mean JURY FAILS TO CONVICT INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS. I anything serious, but It certainly does at the temperature of beeswax.

Dean Sayre has been experimenting with corn oil fer more than a year. He founei that it makes a very good substitute for olive oil in salad dressings, and believes that the hydrogenated oil can be used in place of lard. The patented frying mediums are hydrogenated cotton seed oil. Corn oil is' extracted from the soft white center of the corn, where the life spark dwells. It is a byproduct of the manufacture of starch, glucose and the better grades eif corn meal.

1, G. A. and the I not mean anything good. It's better to Topeka Post No this, in the han1 of ln prucl it i Him Evidence of IH-Yenr-Old t.irl counted by Juror. scrofula are developed and aggravated.

There is not much poetry in this, but there is truth, and it is a wonder that more people ilon't get rid of these ailments. The medicine that cures them Hood's Sarsaparilla is easily obtained and there is abundant proof that its cures are radical and permanent. Advert isement. Woman's Relief Corps No. 94 will install their new officers this afternoon at 2 o'clock at their hall, 701 Kansas avenue, third floor.

E. T. WOLF. Commander. D.

H. FAY. Adjutant. be on the safe side and take Foley I Kidney Pills to strengthen and invig- orate the kidneys and help them do their work. They help rid the blood of acids anel poisons.

For sale by all elealers. Advertisement. bpe-cial to The Capital. Troy, Jan. S.

The result of the trial of Iee Cumbee. a prominent farmer living near Moray, who was charged with having assaulted upon several occasions Julia Williams, lfi years old. his wife's niece, ended in a hung jury here yesterday. Ten of the jurors voted for acquittal. not the irullK thoutfh Jn.i riitred "Siim Tlir 1'liited Doctora of Topeka have Imrt most atirceaa In every case rorri4n: to tlieir officer.

'I be rnre la here. It an 1 safely tid er-rf ully Ki If I 'inpatient ome? before It in too lat The a bile mart learn that far diaeaae tm be eaaafererf nceefally It muM bar early reco alt Inn aarf tiaiel treat-meat." aaya llr. Jamrn Aleiaadrr I.ladaay.aae mt tbe foremost apeelallata ef Statistic show and prove that almot half the i- i-InK under the observation and rare of the ordinary are Incorrectly diagnosed and the patient treated lor nom. thing he never had. If you are afflicted with tomah dierr ihe kldneva.

bladder, pelvic orKn. lui.x or trtujs tro.i. ble it the nafest to ko with your il'ne to tbe beat, tbe aperlallat. In chronic d.eae the 1'nlteJ Iooton the cause wh-n othera fall r.etauae thev depend not alone tipo'i an anatomic tenor is but they seek to make ntt etloloirtc aunative dUsrno-lH and leuh the patient how to re-adjust himself accord. nifly.

This is the sixth year of the United Doctors' practice in Topeka without a single death. JUDGE JOHNSTON WILL BE KANSAS DAY SPEAKER Special to The Capital. Emporia, Jan. S. W.

A. chief justice of the supreme court of Kansas, will give the principal address at the annual Kansas day dinner in Emporia, given under the of the King's Daughters of the First Presbyterian church. TWENTY PAYMENT LIFE POLICY Matured in the Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Company of Lincoln, Nebraska The I alted llaetora are tbe oaly praetlrlaa; pbyaletaa ad iierlalliti la Tapeka ka le a caaraatee to eare I'll It roata jaa aatbiax. The United Doctor are the only phi- 24 l0S SET SCHOOL RECORD. Special to The Capital.

Atchison, Jan. Today twenty-four boys in the Ingalls school, of this city, completed four months attendance without an absent or tardy mark. Miss Etta Earhart, their teacher, gave them a quarter holiday. Seattle, Washington, August 11, 1914. Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Company, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Gentlemen: I wish to acknowledge receipt of settlement of my policy number 3302 taken with your company August 11, 1894, being a twenty payment life policy. I have this day received from W. A. Newell, general agent, your check No. 55665 for $1,737.66 in payment of said policy.

This settlement is very gratifying to me. I realize I have had twenty years of protection without cost. I have paid you $60.50 each year for twenty years and now you pay me $527.66 more money than I paid you. I can heartily recommend the Old Line Bankers Life Insurance to any one wishing good, safe insurance. Thanking you for the prompt payment, I remain Yours very truly B.

A. HOARD, 4045 2d N. E. Name. Bertha A.

Hoard Residence Seattle, Wash. Amount of Policy $2,000.00 Total Premiums $1,210.00 in Topeka who will tell you runi at the tart if they can cure you. what the eipenee will be anJ Me up to every itatement made. the United Ioctor before you have squandered money wttfcout permanent result. Use the Unit-d iHKtora when you first detect a d.or!er and protect your health, keep it whi have lt AGED MAN AND HIS WIFE BOTH DIE IN SAME WEEK Special to The Capital.

St. Marys, Jan. Mr. and Mrs. 7 A hint to the wiM i sufficient.

SETTLEMENT Total Cash Paid Bertha A. Hoard, $1,737.66 And 20 Years Insurance for Nothing Amos B. Pool, residents of St. Marys I since 1S76, died within one week. Mr.

Pool died a week ago. A few days later Mrs. Fool took seriously ill and I was buried here yesterday. The Pools resided in Topeka until 1876 and have Kaaaaa aeaae Tapeka, Kaa. UNITED DOCTORS 7 orders 24 aaa) 34 Klra.

relatives there. Mr. Pool aided in the rection of the Melan bridge. HOW TO CURE A LA GKIPPE COUGH. "Coughs that hang on" demand treatment.

Stop and think! Reason and common sense tell you that it is folly Ask the man who owns one of our policies. Write us. Assets $8,000,000 We have a good agency for you ii For Automobile Painting and Trimming First Class Work Guaranteed at Reasonable Prices. SEE 1o "grin and bear it." Those racking la grippe coughs that wrench the body and cause soreness and pains in the! lungs yield more quickly to Foley's Honey and Tar than to any other treat-! ment. Forty years record of sue-1 cesses proves this.

For coughs, colds, i croup and other distressing ailments of throat, chest, lungs, larynx and bron- chial tubes, you can find nothing that; will compare with this reliable rem-j edy. For sale by all dealers. Adv. E. KINLEY, 422-426 Jackson St..

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